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by lawtguy 12y ago
I think this points out that the problem is we keep treating our children like adults. We've pushed to make them learn skills earlier to the point that kindergarden is now essentially first grade [0]. Additionally schools are cutting
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by lawtguy 12y ago
What your building sounds like a document management system: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document_management_system . Might be worth looking at some to see how they'd fit with what you're envisioning. Even
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by lawtguy 12y ago
No, the computers they're handing out to the kids to do work on need to be locked down. There's no way that a school district would have time and resources to help every kid work through fixing the issues on their computer after
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by lawtguy 12y ago
That blog post looks highly suspect to me. The AEI is reposting the work of a blogger who has taken data from two different sources: a paper on the GINI of individuals, and GINI as calculated for households and families by the CBO. There
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by lawtguy 12y ago
The white paper was pretty interesting. I'd certainly like to see Transatomic build a demonstration reactor. If you can really meet the promises of a half the cost and better safety, this could be key in getting carbon emissions unde
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by lawtguy 13y ago
The problem with using a regular camera is you need a bright light shined at the iris in order to make sure you can see it well. Most people find this uncomfortable, which makes it hard to get people to adopt it. Instead, most iris scanner
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by lawtguy 13y ago
The ban also removes some of the reward for this behavior. Some of the people are doing it to make themselves look superior and the target inferior. With the ban, they can instantly be pulled up short ("Hey! We don't do that her
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by lawtguy 13y ago
I think this is exactly why they added this rule: some people didn't realize the negative effects of acting surprised when someone doesn't know something. The jerks are probably still going to be jerks of course, but for the othe
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by lawtguy 13y ago
Just to reinforce what Noddingham said: if you were a temp working for Kelly, you didn't get "fired": Juno Pacific called up your staffing manager at Kelly Services and told them that they didn't need your services anymo
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by lawtguy 13y ago
This is the classic "blame the parents" explanation (see refrigerator mothers: http://www.autism-watch.org/causes/rm.shtml ). It frequently gets the causality backwards: the kids don't act that way becau
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by lawtguy 13y ago
"With 32 engineers over four years, WhatsApp built something that's as speedy and reliable as telecom text networks without any of the regulatory, pricing or spectrum advantages enjoyed by those companies" While this is techn
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by lawtguy 13y ago
Lots of good explanations in this thread, but I'll add my own: I'd call it the trap of the gifted, rather than the curse. That trap has three prongs: 1) Gifted people get concepts right away, almost effortlessly. 2) Because it&#x
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by lawtguy 13y ago
From my observations, the effect of disturbing content seems to depend on the person. Some people see it, are disgusted by it and are largely unaffected. Some people (like myself), see it are disgusted by it and then are bothered by it fo
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by lawtguy 13y ago
The reason Steam does sales is because they make more money: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/10/24/less-is-more-gabe... . From the article, they expected that cutting Counter-Strike by 75% would result i
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by lawtguy 13y ago
I don't think it's as crazy as telling them to pick their computer up and drop it on the desk: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_III#Design_flaws
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by lawtguy 13y ago
EMV (known as Chip and PIN in the UK) is coming to the US in 2015: http://www.bankinfosecurity.com/interviews/visa-on-emv-in-us...
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by lawtguy 13y ago
It starts in the 1910's and 20's with Henry Ford: mass production of goods while paying your workers a high enough wage to buy your own products. This gets further codified in the 1930s with the New Deal: tax supported social saf
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by lawtguy 13y ago
Apple did make a machine comparable to the Amiga 500, the Apple IIGS: http://oldcomputers.net/appleiigs.html . Similar in graphics and sound ability along with GUI OS and full Apple IIe emulation. It was certainly capable
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by lawtguy 13y ago
I suspect that "burger diversity" is just a proxy for wealth. The wealthier a county is, the greater the availability of healthy food. Plus you can probably afford a gym membership and/or can walk/jog/bike outside
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by lawtguy 13y ago
There can be a lot more that's going on than just they are bad programmers: - They are solving a fundamentally hard problem: it's a problem that at first glance looks easy, but turns out to be really really hard (for example: htt
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by lawtguy 13y ago
I support the right of a woman to have an abortion, and I'm also very uncomfortable with this product. In general, I think it's OK to cause pain or kill non-sentient beings as long as it leads to a useful end. Killing a cow so w
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by lawtguy 13y ago
A billboard is bad metaphor for a website. With a billboard, you can get the information while standing in public or private space not owned or controlled by the advertiser. So a billboard is more like banner ad than a website. A website
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by lawtguy 13y ago
The author may be correct that Nintendo is in trouble and will lose against Apple, Google, Samsung, Sony, Microsoft, etc. His mistake is in thinking this means that Nintendo needs to do something right now. As a thought experiment, imagine
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by lawtguy 13y ago
The problem with that argument is it's pretty much the same one used by the prisoner's rights movement in the 60s. Their success in improving conditions for prisoners happened at the same time crime rate exploded. Since then pol
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by lawtguy 13y ago
The PIN is only transmitted to the chip embedded in the card. If the PIN matches, the smart card chip authorizes the transaction. So the PIN is never transmitted to the card processor, just the authorization message from the card. They on
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by lawtguy 13y ago
There's definitely a bit hand holding with Parse that makes it attractive to a inexperienced developer. If opening a socket and sending and receiving binary data makes you nervous, then Parse is going to make you feel a whole lot more comf
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by lawtguy 13y ago
A clear example of Betteridge's law of headlines: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines . It's no for the simple reason that eventually entropy gets everything. So even with some radical life extension, eventually s
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by lawtguy 14y ago
I find the "Old Friends" hypothesis a good answer for why hygiene causes allergies: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1774411/ The basic idea is that the human immune system has co-evolved with a number of immune suppressing par
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by lawtguy 14y ago
I suspect that the we won't jump from fully manual cars to fully automatic cars. It will likely be similar to the auto-park function: we'll see more and more cases where automation is available at the request of the driver. As car makers a
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by lawtguy 14y ago
Moderate alcohol consumption actually increases longevity: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_effects_of_alcohol . So regular periodic consumption of a reasonable amount of alcohol is actually helping you.

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